MOGADISHO (Sunatimes) Key ministers in the transitional federal government in
Somalia have threatened to defect into the main Islamist opposition group
Al-Shabaab if primes minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke does not include them
in his new cabinet, Waagacusub site qouting sources from presidential place in
Mogadishu published on Thursday.
Ministers of information, justice
and interior, Dahir Mohamud Gelle, Abdirahman Janaqow and Abdukadir Omar gave
warnings against premier’s
attempt to skip over their names in the list of the upcoming cabinet ministers.
An officer in the premier office
said in condition of anonymity that all the ministers who had been members of
Al-Itihad Islamist group and ally to president Sharif Sheik Ahmed will not be
include in the new government.”
“What
we know is that the information minister Dahir Gelle has been closely working
with Al-Shabaab and we also knew he was among the officials that were behind
the deadly suicide explosion which happened in Hotel Shamow 3 December 2009 so
it would not be a surprise if he rejoins his terror group and this will not
have any effect to the government.” The officer said adding that the current information
minister is also known to have secretly passes weapons and fund to the Al-Qaeda
linked terror group Al-Shabaab.
Dahir Gelle, ages 45, hails from
Hawiye clan, has been among the military commanders that forced young students
from Mogadishu schools to fight against the Ethiopian troops in late 2006
during the six months Islamic Courts Union rule in southern Somalia.
Delivering his speech in meeting
held in Kampala, Uganda by CRD in 2008, Mr. Gelle confessed that he had the
responsibility of deaths of more than 2000 students. His words that were
recorded can be evidence to his crime against humanity and he may be tried on
that case in the future.
President Sharif Sheik Ahmed denied
the accusation by the Human Rights Watch which says that the government
involves in child recruitment for the war against the Islamists in the capital.
The allegation came after a video
report by New York Times showed child soldiers fighting alongside the
government troops in the frontlines in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, while
some of them were interviewed.
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Somalia: Government ministers to join Islamists
Dahir Gelle,information minister of Somalia, willing to join Al-Shabaab Islamist rebel group